Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-29
HOME DUTIES OF GIRLS.
That They Should be Taught House
keepipg No One Doubts

keeping No One Doubts.
1t is agreed on all sides that our Amer
lean girls should be taught how TO keep
house. One of the most sensible articles
on this subject is in Good Housekeeping. The
writer says: 1t is by no means necessary
to keep your daughter in the kitchen half
the time to accomplish these results, nor is
it essential that she should be skilled on
her marriage day with every kind of cook
cry, and be able to get up first-class din
ner on short notice. This should not be
expected any more than that she should go
to the blackboard and unerringly demon
strate the forty-seventh proposition of
Euclid three or four years after she has
graduated at some excellent seminary.
But the elements of domestic
knowledge should be thoroughly mastered,
and suitable amount of practice given in
important details. The intelligent girl will
know how to apply such knowledge when
the proper time comes.
The natural imitativeness of children is
TO be made available, which the mother
who herself looks after the ways of her
household will find an easy matter.
The little ones like to be useful, if they
see others about them useful; they like to
follow the mother about the house under
pretense of helping, though often hindering
her they enjoy using their little hands
about something that older people do: in
fact to work until false notions are instllled
into their minds. Most young
girls delight to have some small household
duty committed to their care; and II this
disposition should be fostered, instead of
being discouraged, as it often Is, on the
ground that they cannot do the thing as
well as an older person. they would, with
rare exceptions, grow up with suiflclent
knowledge of those home matters and in
terest in them about which nowadays there
is so much complaint that young ladies
know SO little, and care less"
Mrs. Ellen Bliss Hooker, in the same
journal, writes I'VE hear great deal
about the decline in matrimonial alliances,
and much that is very absurd is said and
written Of it-mainly, it is urged, that
women are not fitted for wives of men with
moderate incomes. 1t is said that cooper
alive housekeeping would insure greater
degree of family life. When from large
factories, stores, laundries, and the like, we
can SO order our home living as to lessen
the expenses incident upon the keeping up
of large establishment, the dispensing of
an army of servants, and proportionate ex-
penditure for food, ETC., men of small capt.
tai can afford to marry, hire rooms and
have meals served therein for a compare
lively small consideration. Without ques-
ton many young men who would gladly
establish homes of their own are deferred
from so doing by the manifest extravagances
(as they call it, of the young women
But the writer thinks that the young
women of this generation are basely mis-
judged Because at the various summer
resorts they lay aside all care, and give
themselves up to recreation, it is assumed
that they have 10 domesticity in their
is an index of their entire lives. Nine
times in ten, if the truth were told, it
would be found that the young woman
who is styled so frivolous has, with her
own dainty fingers, fashioned the garment
which seems to the uninitiated so extrava
CANT. Young men will do well to gain
more information before making rash criti-